Bitburner – Server Targeting Direction Guide

Need a quick route to a particular destination? I’ve created a script that’ll give you the directions.

No more feeling like a lost tourist looking for a node again.

Getting Started

This is something of a shortcut to finding some of those harder-to-reach nodes.

You might think your version 2 of the scan-analyzer might give you a way to directly connect to every node… think again.

The scanner only goes to a range of 10 nodes and no further, which means finding the more distant nodes (up to *13* hops from home!) requires actually going a bit into the wilds and connecting further in before attempting that scan again.

I created this utility to find a path to those distant places, and to make it easier, even create a string you can cut and paste right into your terminal to take you right there.

Note, I’m not going to give away server names here.. that’s more an exercise for the reader.

The Script

/** @param {NS} ns **/
export async function main(ns) {
	ns.disableLog("ALL");
	ns.tail();
    var src = ns.getHostname();
	var tgt = ns.args[0];
	var servers = {};
	var queue = [src];
	var route = [tgt];
	var ptr = tgt;

	servers[src] = "START";

	while (queue.length) {
		var s = queue.pop();
		var links = ns.scan(s);
		for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
			if (!servers[links[i]]) {
				queue.push(links);
				servers[links[i]] = s;
			}
		};
	}

	while (ptr != src) {
		ptr = servers[ptr];
		route.push(ptr);
	}
	route.pop();
	
	ns.print("connect " + route.reverse().join("; connect "));
}[/code]

Example Usage

From home to omega-net,

[home ~/]> run find.ns omega-net

It will give you this in a window:

connect harakiri-sushi; connect max-hardware; connect omega-net